In Focus
On 24 February 2022, Putin catapulted modern 21st-century Europe overnight into a new world order with a single blow.
Forty-four million Ukrainians were bombed awake from their sleep, a quarter of the total population was forced to flee, triggering the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War. It was a war of aggression that, wherever Russian soldiers set foot on Ukrainian soil, was marked from the very first day by war crimes and atrocities.
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“Stand with Ukraine” rally in Frankfurt am Main. Around 1,200 people attended the rally, which was invited and organised by the Ukrainian Coordination Centre (UCC) and other Ukrainian initiatives such as Perspektive Ukraine and Frankfurt for Ukraine.
Valerio Krüger, Spokesman of the Executive Board of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) spoke
on 24.February 2025 at the “Stand with Ukraine” rally.
Please keep informed about Ukraine, there is a lot of Russian disinformation
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Edgar Lamm: “We want to be where others don’t go.”
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A humanitarian initiative has been implemented in the Putivl community with the participation of high school students who previously took part in IAC ISHR educational programmes.
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Mourning Mart Olav-Niklus
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